Theodor committed his work to human values and challenged his audience to make the world a better place. In How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Theodor Geisel’s message was about anti-materialism. The Cat in the Hat “is a revolt against authority, but it’s ameliorated by the fact that the Cat cleans up everything at the end. It’s revolutionary in that it goes as far as Kernesky and then stops. It doesn’t go quite as far as Lenin” (Brown).
In August of 1954, Horton Hears a Who was published. “While Seuss never explicitly said Horton had a hidden meaning, the book’s main proclamation of a person’s a person, no matter how small is seen as a call to help the disenfranchised. Many groups have adopted the slogan, and Seuss even threatened to sue a pro-life group that used it on their letterhead. Seuss biographer Thomas Fensch wrote that the mayor of Whoville is referencing the bombing of Hiroshima when he says ‘When the black-bottomed birdie let go and we dropped, we landed so hard that our clocks have all stopped’”